Example sentences for: guadeloupe

How can you use “guadeloupe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The smaller islands, French Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, are administrative sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) of Guadeloupe.

  • Though some 256 km (160 miles) away, they’re dependencies of Guadeloupe.

  • On 12 April 1782, in the sea channel near Guadeloupe’s little off-shore islands of Les Saintes, a British fleet gained historic revenge against French Admiral de Grasse, of Yorktown fame, in a battle that is still talked about today.

  • Some years later, French colonizers moved south to both Guadeloupe and Martinique.

  • Lienard de l’Olive and Jean Duplessis d’Ossonville put ashore at Pointe-Allegre in northern Guadeloupe on 28 June 1635.


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